Make-up and Costume

We had many conversations concerning make up and costume.

One of the ideas was to have the same make-up but with different costumes for each personality, me perhaps with ripped clothes, or a leather jacket, Hannah with a conservative motherly outfit, Charlotte with an apron and a scarf tied around the neck (50s housewife-esque) and Caitlin obviously in red, fishnet tights etc. but we thought people might just see this as four different people.

The next idea was to have the same make-up and similar costumes, so say a white shirt and black trousers, I could have mine ripped and muddy, Caitlin buttoned down and tied at the bottom to show some skin, Charlotte tucked in with the top button undone, maybe with an apron or scarf, and Hannah tucked in and buttoned all the way to the top. But we weren't sure we like this and wanted to look at having nightwear on as she's meant to be in pajamas or nightie.

So we decided on having the same pajamas, going to Primark and buying a top then wearing black leggings underneath. And to show the different personalities, we went for different make-up and hairstyles, me with black lipstick and eyeliner, Caitlin rouged cheeks and big red lipstick, Charlotte pretty, prim make-up and Hannah mostly natural. The hairstyles would reflect this also.

We looked at images of Berkoff make-up and found that most had white mask-like face paint, with exaggerated expressions.




So on Monday, we experimented with makeup (on me) using the guy on the right above as quite a heavy influence for the final result.

First attempt at face, but wasn't expressive enough.

Last face, using the guy above as inspiration to extend the ends of the lips and enlarge the eyebrows, but we may make the tears smaller for the performance.

The first part just showing how we created the tears.